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Exploring the Ideal Ego and Ego Ideal Distinctions

This chapter explores key psychoanalytic concepts, focusing on the distinctions between the ideal ego and the ego ideal. It also contrasts the affirming nature of the ego ideal with the punitive characteristics of the superego.

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